Final Fantasy 12

Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding fishing spot in the fishing mini-game:

Master Den: Fish up Saboten Crest in the Secret Reaches.
Middle Reaches: Get five "Perfect Fishing" in the Lower Reaches.
Secret Reaches: Fish up Saboten Bond in the Upper Reaches with Matamune.
Taikou Chest (treasure): Get nine "Perfect Fishing" in the Master Den.
Upper Reaches: Get five "Perfect Fishing" in the Middle Reaches.

Go back to the place where you fight zeromus and chaining the dead bones.after they're not spawn again touch the waystone you will be warped.then touch it again and you will be warped to the first area where those two reapers are.touch the waystone again and start chaining the dead bones again until you have 99 blood darkened bone and 99 dark crystals.after that exit and go to the teleport crystal and teleport anywhere you want that has a merchant near it (I suggest to Mt. Bur Omisace,Balfonheim,or Dalmasca eastersand.it's up to you to choose).and sell all the loot+all the junk obtain you can get 150000+ per visit to the stilshrine

NOTE:To get Zeromus:far into the game after beating doctor Cid go to Mt. Bur Omisace and talk to the acolyte outside the temple that brought a staff he will give you the stone of the condemner,after that go to the stilshrine of Miriam and touch the waystone,you will be given the option to use the stone of the condemner.use it and you will be warped to an area called throne of veiled gods,open the door and fight Zeromus but have 99 hi and X potion because you can't use magic in this battle and a LOTS of dead bones will show up,defeat the dead bones first so you can focus on Zeromus.After you defeat him you obtain the Zeromus Esper and can do the Zeromus method for earning easy gil

This is the strongest ninja swords in the game.it has 80 attack and dark elemental attack.this weapon is a drop from the rare game bombshell in the lasche span in the lhusu mines.it has 20% of spawning.just run back and forth on the bridge,when you find him kill him(don't kill the two aeronites,because I want you to chain it because you can get more than 1 yagyu darkblade in one drop)then take the cart in the site 5 area and go back to the bridge,and kill him again.I get 3 on chain 26 with 3 hours 20 minutes(it's long but it's worth for it).ENJOY THE YAGYU DARKBLADE

To have a gemsteel you must sell 1x scarletite, 2x damascus steel, 2x hell gate's flame.But,the easy gemsteel I meant is a drop but it's a little long you must have the hunter's monograph and make the lv99 red chocobo to spawn he will drop the gemsteel as a monograph drop with 90% chance.You can also steal empreyal soul from it with thief cuffs.

First you should be over a level 60 so things can be much faster and easier - make sure you have holy lances or an excalibur:Second, Zeromus must be defeated -

Go to the Stillshrine of Miriam and into the place where you have fought Zeromus. Skeletons will appear now and you can kill each of them in 1 hit. They will drop blood-darkened bones which sell about 1500 each - If no more skeletons come out, go back to the pedestal and touch it, you should end up in another place, touch it again, then you should end up near the enterance of Stillshrine of Miriam where those 2 Reapers are. TRY NOT TO KILL ANY OF THEM OR YOU WILL BREAK THE CHAIN! Then touch the pedestal one more time and you will end up in the Zeromus area again. New skeletons will appear and your chain will continue. Keep repeating all these steps until you get a chain of 100, each time you go to Zeromus' area, you should have done at least over 35 chains: Then check your inventory, you should have 99 blood darkened bones and 99 dark crystals:.probably 99 pebbles too:sell em all:

XTRA: If you dont know where the place is or anything about Zeromus, follow these steps:.
1. Far into the game after beating Doc Cid, chat to one of them midgets with a staff somewhere near the temple of Mt.Bur-Omisace. He will give you the Stone of Condemner.

2. Go to the Stillshrine of Miriam and go to that 1st pedestal, use the stone of condemner.

Explore around Rabanastre until you find a place called Nalbina Fortress. Once there you will find imperials named Gibbs and Deweg, which are the names Biggs and Wedge but just scrambled. Those names appear in previous Final Fantasy games.

During the battle with Gilgamesh (the rank VII mark given to you by Montblanc named "Ancient Mystery Man"), he will pull out various swords that are from previous Final Fantasy games. Gilgamesh will hold up to 8 since he has 8 arms. The more famous swords include Cloud's Buster Sword, Squall's Gunblade, Tidus' Brotherhood, and Sephiroth's Masamune. The strange thing is all of these swords have some changes to their previous forms. For example, Cloud's Buster Sword has a Japanese symbol on it. Tidus' Brotherhood has a hook at the end on both sides instead of just the bladed part.

One of the NPCs in the City Of Arcades, refers to an acting troupe by Tantulus. This is the same acting troupe that Zidane belongs to in Final Fantasy 9.

If you return to Rabanastre after leaving Balfonhiem, there is a NPC located across from Migelo's Sundries. He claims that his friend counted people at the fete at the start of the game. He says that the count may even include the "spoony bards". This could be a reference to the classic Final Fantasy 4 line spoken by Cecil, "Oh, you spoony bard."

There are several references to Aeons (Final Fantasy 10).
There is a place called Sky Fortress Bahamut. Bahamut is the name of the 5th Aeon you receive in FF10.
There are 2 airships called The Ifrit and The Shiva. These are the names of the 2nd and 4th Aeons obtained in Final Fantasy 10.
One more references is one of Montibecs elite marks is Ixion. That is the 3rd Aeon obtained in FF10.

When you sneak into the palace close to the begining, Barthelio says "Ifrit", which refers to the Aeon Ifrit in Final Fantasy 10 and also in X-2.

To make the trophy rare game to appear you must talk to the club leader in the hunter's camp of the phon coast then follow what he say then after you do what he say he will make you a club member and you can hunt the trophy rare game.

Have all characters atleast lvl 50 it says 65 for most cheats but if you cast beserker on everyone but your 2 characters you can beat him easily. have vaan and fran with no beserker have them as party leader in seprate teams. for gambits have ally 50%hp curaga/ ally any arise / allly any raise / ally any esuna/ evryone except captains. party leaders target attak &nbsp/ party leaders . nearist visable foe attak/ ally self libra / cast before battle have guest reddas in party have beserker haste and regen on him have shell protect and float on evryone else have 30 phoexix- down and 50 x-potion have all gambits for every character use mist when 25% hp left . also have 15 high eithers and 25 eithers.have 10 elixers and 5 mega-elixers . use elixer only when in hp critical. get stone of condemner from a guy in mt. bur omisis. then go to stilshrine of mariam use stone of condemner on way stone touch it first though . the cast magics.

Ok so you first encounter this in the place you get the sword of kings. It's green then so you can tell.

But later at places like the Sochen Cave Palace it is blue. An easy way to tell if a save crystal is a bug or save point press left or right on the directional arrows while facing it and if it is a crystal bug you
Will target it like a monster. If it's a crystal nothing will happen

I saw a few cheats about switching a couple high leveled characters out for low levels so when Zodiark uses darkja you'll still be alive and be able to use arise, but a better thing is, and I never lost a single character due to death from doing this right after trying like 3 times before hand, equip your characters with a set of bone mail or bone helm which halve dark elemental attacks, and if you have gambits set with bubble protect haste, shell, etc. etc. and have high weapons you wont have to worry about much defense, until near the end when he starts becoming immune to physical damage, and use high level black magic such as scathe.

To defeat him easily just bring a lot af vaccine and if you have it the white magic that cure disease because his attack usually inflict disease.After that,just attack him until he die and become yours.He is level 2

To defeat Zalera is so easy.first just follow the story until you reach draklor laboratory and defeat doctor cid.you will be in balfonheim.buy the curaja spell and go to barheim passage and battle him,just use the curaja spell and he will die and became your esper

To defeat him just use ICE-BASED ATTACK and he will die quickly.The only thing that really pain in the butt is the zombie that keep spawning from the ground.Oh,one more thing if you want to fight him make sure you buy a long range weapon because he is a flying type

First of all, you need to get Golden Amulet and Embroidered Tippet. Have 3 party members equip with Embroidered Tippet, and the 3 reserve members equip with Golden Amulet. This way the ones that are out fighting gets bouble experience points, and those in reserve gets bouble LP. When they level up, switch them with the reserve members and also switch their accessories. If they have Golden Amulet switch to Embroidered Tippet, and if they have Embroidered Tippet switch them to Golden Amulet. I recomend doing this when you get both accessories.

Here are some good places to level up:
-LV 1-10, Giza PLains and Barheim Passage
-LV 10-15, Dreadnought Laviathan
-LV 15-20, Lhusu mines( run back and fourth on the Shunia Twinspan)
-LV 20-27, Giza PLains( the Rains)
-LV 27-31, Giza PLains( fight the Silicon Tortoises in Tracks of the Beast durin the Rains)
-LV 31-60, Ozmone Plains, Zertinan Caverns, and Paramina Rift( do this solo, that means only one party member are out to fight and the rest is in reserve)
-LV 60-99, The Henne Mines

Hey do you know the place where you can steal deathbringer sword at the barheim passage havent you noticed that the treasure chest in there contain 2000-3000gil surely y7ou know what to do just go 3 screens away and when you came back you wioll see them again you can kill the monsters too for their loot nd if your lucky you caqn steal another deathbringer at the special mimic in there just keep doing until you have enough gil to spend this fastyer than my WOLF LOOTand PHANTER HUNTERr but if you want to raise your gil and also your lp you should try try phanter hunter aqnd remember this is for higher leveln character and higher money raking hope i helped HAPPY HUNTING !!!!

Use OIL and FIRAGA. But DO NOT USE THE NORMAL FIRE because it deals less damage. OIL stays permanent on a foe even after many FIRAGA. It might possibly work on high level characters between 60-65. Just try for yourself then you´ll see.

First complete the gil snapper hunt.Then go to the beast tracks area in Giza plains during the rain. you`ll find 4 sillicon tortuoises. Kill them all to get at least 1,000exp,maybe an aged turtle shell,and 2 lp.Then save without leaving area ,and go back to fight 4 more tortuoises.Keep doing this for along time to get more levels

Deathbringer- attack 90, one hit KO
*you can get this as soon as you get the dawn shard*

ok so go through all that side quest to get the barheim key (im not writing it cause it is written everywhere already and its veryyy long). once you get the key, enter the barheim passage through the dalmasca eastersand. okay there are 2 new open paths now, one has a bunch of bombs and the other, to the left i believe, has toads and an adamtine thing. also disease traps so watch out. there are a few treasure cheats that contain loads of money in here but one is on the other side of a rock that a salimander is standing beside. a mimic could be inside it, although much harder than the ones that came out of the chests earlier on in the game of course. keep in mind it is a rare monster. so keep leaving and opening the chest until the mimic pops out. dont try to fight him unless you are getting this late in the game because most likely he is too hard (22000 hp). steal the deathbringer sword from him. equipping the theifs cuffs is a good idea. you can repeat this as many times as you like. once i stole the sword i ran like hell so good luck.

Levelling up getting too tedious once your average level is above 60? It's understandable since the game is designed to be possible for completion when you are level 60 (or even less), so there aren't many places where you can level up fast and easy after reaching 60. High-levelled optional bosses and rare games are an option, but they are not always available and comes by only every once in a while. The Necrohol of Nabudis may sound like a good place, but it is got wide hallways (possible ambush!) and different types of enemies with different elemental properties. So look no further: the Nabreus Deadlands' got what you need.

Considering you are at 55-60, you might have defeated Roblon at Overlooking Eternity--accessible through a secret path in the Northwestern of The Slumbermead section of Nabreus Deadlands. Overlooking Eternity is a tiny, narrow area and has only one type of monster roaming inside after you defeated the Roblon: the Dead Bones. Now these are a pretty tough bunch and they are aggressively fast, but each could dish out about 1,100+ EXP when defeated. The trick is to cast a bunch of positive status on your party (Haste, Shell, and Regen at the least), have a tanker character equip a Holy Lance (or some other Holy-augmented weapon) and equip Embroidered Tippets which could double the EXP earned before entering Overlooking Eternity (while still in The Fog Mutters).

Once inside, the Bones will quickly spawn like mad--even as high as five at a time--and there is a high possibility that you will be overwhelmed even when you are at 60. It's best that everyone in the party gangs up on one Bones at a time--this would allow you to focus on killing one faster before another comes forward. Don't split your party to take out many at once because these things have a considerable amount of HP and is very quick and generous on dishing out magic damage--most could take out 800-1,500 HP depending on your characters' levels and assigned equipments. Just kill ONE each at a time (unless you are very confident on your abilities) and proceed systematically to avoid more spawning than necessary. They will keep on spawning and then stop after a while (after about a chain of 20); take this short break to cure everyone and recast your positive status--avoid walking around when doing this because it would activate another spawn--then when you are ready just get moving and they will re-appear.

An average day in Overlooking Eternity is a field day of at least a chain of 50 kills in a single entry--more than enough to obtain high-quality loots and tradeable goods, and since one Dead Bones gives you about 1,100 EXP, 50 would give about 55,000--doubled with the Tippet into more than 110,000: just do the math. When the spawning has completely stopped, just exit 2 screens (saving at a nearby Teleport Crystal would be a good idea) and enter again to find the spawning as good as new. If you did it right, depending on your level, a half an hour in this cozy little spot could guarantee for at least one level up for each active character.

(only if every character in your party has a quickening, guest characters excluded.)
Uhh..This is going to be really really confusing to explain. O_O

There's a reason why there is a timer in quickening mode.
The faster you make your decision on which character should perform a quickening next, the more time you will have in the next round. It's easier to make quick decisions at first, and then when you get to your 3rd hit, you will have more time to keep pressing R2 until a mist charge will show. Pressing the button that is assigned to that character, (eg; triangle button) will give them the mist charge, and then you press the button again to choose them to perform the next action. When the timer eventually gets too fast for you and ends the quickening chain, switch one active character with a person from the sideline. For example, if I had Basch, Ashe and Penelo out as a party, I would swap Penelo with Vaan. I then would use Vaan (who still has unused MP) to perform a quickening on the monster. When in Vaan's quickening mode, you can easily just keep pressing R2 again for mist charges. When you run out of quickening chains, you can just swap Vaan for another character, like Balthier. And have Balthier perform a quickening on the monster and keep trying to get the mist charges, etc etc. This way, you get 4 chances to bring the monster down with quickening chains.

So you've reached level 60 and ur probably ready to win the game, but if your a hardcore ff gamer than you want to make all your characters lvl 99. So here is the best way I have been able to do it and the best way I have seen so far. Once you've beaten practically every area and now its just time to win the game and do sidequests you want to get a few items. You want the zodiac spear, which is the most powerful weapon in the game, and the embroided tippet which gives you double exp. I started with Vaan (and when you do this take out the 2 other characters so the one your focusing on is alone). equip the zodiac spear, give him the best armor you have and equip the embroided tippet. Now teleport to giruvegan. Use the 2 teleport devices to get to the inside. There are 3 different levels of the area with only about 4 different types of monsters. With the zodiac spear and good armor you should be nearly invincible and every monster gives you over 2k, with the behemoths giving you closer to 4k exp. with the embroided tippet obviously it double so your banking 5-10k exp on every kill and most monsters will die within 1-3 strikes with the spear. It also helps to set only 3 gambits (trust me thats all you will need) set self-haste and self-regen and also attack closest enemy then you just sit back and walk through each area a good 2-3 times then move on and make sure to pick up all the goodies that get dropped because you gain so much items which actually can be cashed in pretty well. With this procedure I managed to level up a lv 60 character one level every 4-5 mins until they reach about 90, then from there on it might take 10-15 mins or so to get the last 9 lvs. Make sure you stop from time to time to go sell loot at any of the shops then return to giruvegan and keep going. All my characters now are lvl 99 and I have over 2million gil so trust me it works. It just takes a little time and dedication. Have fun!!!

After you cleared the barheim passage you have 3 party members to accompany you bashe,fran and balthier ok this is what youre gonna do its very simple kill all the wolves you see !!! kill all of them make chains for over hundreds (i got for over300+it ended when basche suddenly attacked a cockatrice watch over him since you still cant control his actions)if you can make that chain high enough they can drop so many loot for each kill you can raise your lp points too since every kill you obtain 1 lp points imagine ifd you killed 500 wolves you will have so many to spend (this seem to be very simple because you can always see them some people even ignore them and pay no attention for the beasts) this is suggested if you want to have an early gil and also raise your lp happy hunting!!!!

If you use the teleport stone to go to the Tchita Uplands, exit east and head toward the area at the end of the next zone where there is basically a "fork" in the road between going north and going east. There are Coeurl spawns both at the fork and on both sides of it. Because of the 2-zone distance between them, the spawn never depletes on the far sides, and you can chain up as many as you like! Stealing will also get you embroidered tippets if you have thief's cuffs and those are very valuable. Loots include Coeurl Pelts (450 gil) Quality Pelts (800+ gil) and Storm Crystals (160 gil). Be sure to buy the grimoire for beasts before to maximize your profit!
Happy hunting!

While going through the Nam-Yensa Sandsea, go to the northern most part of The Sandscale Bank. You will come across Bagolys here. They are worth 448 to 676 exp each and can drop Bent Staffs worth about 1,300 Gil. Fight them, leave, then come back to repeat.

On the mission of the Blue Basilisk "Nidhogg" is a place where lots of skeletons keep appearing. If they stop you just need to go off 2 maps then return to have them respawn. You can gain both exp and Gil because you get Bone Fragments(182 Gil) and Iron Helms(300 Gil).

After you have found penelo on the flying continent in the mine (forgot the name of it) you can go back to where there were a group of bad guys who you ran from and grind.

In the last 2 sections of map in the mine only skeletons resurect, giving you a great place to give you the advantage in later levels. i recommend grinding when you are at level 12 on all characters. when i did this i got a chain of 200+ which will give you a 99% chance of drops from monsters and most of the time a benificial effect, such as protect or shell. the main drop from these monsters are bone fragments and dark stones. by the time you get a chain of 200, you would have your characters to about lvl 18 and enough loot to get you roughly 12,000 Gil. repeating this can help funds but will only help levels so much.

Another good thing about this is you get 1 LP for each monster. 1 trip of a 200 chain can buy a big chunk of licence board for each character.

This will also increase the lvl of new guest or party members and give then more base LP

Have a character equip the masemune. With high health, kill a creature. If you are a level 85, the damage should at least be from 3000-4000 damage. Now lower your life anyway you can ("infuse" can help). Attack a creature now, as you can see, the damage grows higher.

Confused?

Well, when your life is at the CRITICAL point (when your character starts blinking red), combo rate and attack increases a whole bunch. Here's a strategy:

1. Equip the masemune with Vaan/Basch
2. Lure a character except Vaan/Basch
3. Infuse the character who holds the masemune (if the life doesn't go that low, run until you get at least 1 mp. The less Mp you have, the more your life will go down)
4. Equip the Genji Gloves with da chractr who has da masmune.
5. Now slap on haste, bravery, and berserk.

Make sure you do this before a battle with bosses. NOW LOOKIT HIM GO!!! Combos can only go up to 12 hits.

When fighting Zodiark or any other tough creature, summon Ultima. Zodiark is weak to holy and Ultima is weak to dark. The good thing is, Ultima does more holy attacks than Zodiark does dark because he only uses Darkja once in a while. Equip an Excalibur to your strongest character. When Ultima's life is low, attack her and her life will go all the way up (not really all the way but ya kno wut I mean). Meanwhile, attack Zodiark and lure Ultima. When your life is low, use balance or balance motes. Helps a whole bunch when Zodiark uses switch and becomes immune to attack for almost eternity.

In golmore jungle after you enter you will see panthers kill all of them and the most common loot they would drop is ceorl pelts.(ceorl pelts is sold at 400gil each )ok when you enter go left and right and there will be more panthers to murder whren they ran out just runback 2 screens away (WARNING:DONT TOUCH THE BLUE SAVE CRYSTAL OR YOU WILL BREAK YOUR CHAIN ) WHEN YOU COME BACK ALL THE PANTHERS THAT YOUVE KILLED ALREADY RESPAWNED. just keep doing this until you already have 99 ceorl pelts and 99 storm magicites also they sometimes drop warp motes and quality pelts too. when you sell them you will have at leats 60thousand gil.see in just a few minutes you already have money to spend this is quite sinmilar to my WOLF LOOT only this is for higher level charactera an higher money raking hope i helped HAPPY HUNTING!!!

A few more things that I've been doing that seem to work out well. A quick rundown:
1. Set the Party Leader's attack gambits as follows: Foe: HP Critical --> Attack, followed by Foe: Lowest HP --> Steal. I keep the Thief's Cuffs equipped on my leader, and the other 2 Party Members set to Foe: Party Leader's Target --> Attack. This way I'm always stealing good loot, and I can manually make the Party Leader help out the attackers if necessary. Also, all party members are focused on the same enemy, knocking it out quickly instead of spreading the damage around. Also, the Leader will automatically help finish off anything that is almost dead. (A wounded enemy still inflicts full damage:)
2. Since reserve party member status effects do not 'count down' and expire while the character is inactive, I've taken to casting every single positive status effect on every single character, and then just keeping the Party Leader out front to move around. That way the positive effects only 'count down' on the Leader (who I have stealing anyway), while the backups that I swap in to fight are totally buffed much of the time. Also, if the main party gets into trouble (such as in a powerful boss or hunt fight), I can swap in the entire reserve party and they are completely fresh and buffed with 9 fresh Mist Charges:
(I'll generally camp next to a Save Crystal with the 'reserve' party out front, and cast Protect(ga), Shell(ga), Bravery, Faith, Haste(ga), Regen, Bubble, Float, and Vanish(ga) (last ;-) on them all, then swap in the 'main' party and do the same thing, and then put the 2 non-leaders into reserve so their status effects will not count down. Now, just touch the Save Crystal and the leader's on his way:)
3. I also keep Ally: Any --> Haste and Ally: Any --> Regen gambits on all characters, down at the bottom. These are useful and inexpensive, and the MP's used are easily regenerated before either effect expires.
4. Umm: That is about it. Have a nice day! :-)

Get 10 or more Espers and finish the Mindflare Mob Hunt mission (rank B).
Chat to Feng Shui Master Yuggil in Jaharago.
Go to Henne Mines to fight the Zodiac Boss.
Defeat the Zodiac Boss to get the Zodiac Esper.

Description: Tiamat does an Aero attack on all of your party which can cause a great deal of damage. To stop this you can just cast Reflect on all of your party members before the battle. Now it will refect back to Tiamat instead of hitting your party. The bad thing is that it will cause Tiamat to recover some HP.

2. When sneaking into the palace (before getting the Goddess Tear), there are several chests in the Cellar. Do not open the 2 chests in the southeast corner.

3. All treasure chests in the Confiscatory (the place where you get your weapons and armor back after being captured).

4. In the Phon Coast, later in the game, there is an island with sixteen chests all near each other. The fourth chest among all sixteen must not be opened, so it is best not to open any of them. They only contain Gil.

Now, go to the Necrohol of Nabudis to find the most powerful weapon in the game, the Zodiac Spear. It has a +150 Attack with +8 Evasion.

Before all the mantises surrounding it see you then cast aeroaga on them because these are really annoying They are weak to wind magic. Keep doing this until they all die. heal yourself when needed. When threy are all dead (you may get into quite a brawl with them) then focus your attacks on the antlion.

P.S. it helps to have protect, haste, bubble, faith and bravery on your characters but you do not have to.

Before going into to battle, equip all your characters with dark masks, doing this will make it a 50-50 chance of getting hurt of Darkja.

If you are getting killed of darkja and your other 3 characters are turd, then take one of your powerful characters out and make 2 other powerful characters fight it because when he uses darkja, he will more likely to kill both of them but you have got one poerful warrior in the reserves. Bring the character out of the reserves and use Arise on the 2 KO,d characters. This means you are back on track with the battle. Repeat this process if you must.

Giza Plains during the Rain season: There are five withered trees on the banks of the water. Knock all of them down and they will float down the river. They cause a path to form on the south bank. Cross it and go all the way to the southeast corner to find an urn. Open the urn and you will get the Feather Of The Flock. Feather Of The Flock gives you a bond with Cockatrices.

Next, stock up on Pheonix Downs - you will need them. Also it could be useful to have learnt a quickening. I hadn't learned one, but i still got through. Once you've passed the scene with Lamont person and penelo. No guards will come after that. Heal everyone and ran about to get your MP up(If u have a quickening this is useful, as it drains most of ur mp).Go inside and there is a scene. It would have been easier with vossler but u dont have him, so u have to work well. use all quickenings at the start if u have them. Otherwise set one persons gambits to Ally-Hp70% or lower - Cure. Keep attacking and dont use magick, because it wastes mp and dosent do anything to him. When sum1 dies, which is likely, swap them with sum1 else who isn't in the party at the time. I started with Balthier, Basch, Fran. I got fran to cure everyone and the other 2 to attack ghis. Once you run out of swaps use pheonix downs to heal every one. Plus hi-potions are very useful, if u have any. Just keep attacking and quickening to kill him. At the start he has the soldiers with him. Kill them first. If u brought a weapon, but can not equip ti, use lp now. If u do this u'll have no trouble with him

When you need to gain popularity by claiming to be Captain Bosche all you need to do is walk into any store and press Square. Just be careful to make a guard is not facing you.

Trying to convince the people of Bhujerba that Bash is alive? Just seek out the City Pasijanahs (always holding books). They increase the Notoriety bar by nearly 20% per pie. Make sure the Bhujerbas Sainikahs are not close by.

Have the following party setup: Fran, Basche as party leader, Vaan, and Vossler. Buy a lot of Handkerchiefs from the NPC outside and a few Phoenix Downs. Equip one party member with low magic (Basche) with the Nethicite. This will make magicks take half damage. Evil Slayer is very helpful if you have it as well. Before entering the altar to Belias, have Fran cast Protect and Shell on all your characters. Now have Vaan do the healing for the party and Basche do the attacking. Try and have Fran cast Water and Slow. When Belias is less then 40% of heaklth, he will cast Firaja. Firaja creates an Oil status which makes fire do a lot more damage. Now it is time to use the Handkerchiefs you bought ealier to prepare. Cure this with the Handkerchiefs, and cast Protect and Shell on Basche. Keep at it and you will acquire Belias as your 1st Esper. Good Luck!

Have your party over level 30 (for example, Vaan as party leader, Basch, and Penelo). Have both Vaan and Basch to learn Thundara and equip them both with Ice Shield. Equip Penelo with Storm Spear. Buy at least five Banchus Wine (Berserker). When the battle begins, have Vaan and Basch immediately cast Thundara to kill all the Ice Ace. Now, have Basch keep casting Thundara at Mateus and Vaan heal when needed. Let Penelo keep attacking Mateus. Once its effect wears off, make her berserk again. It is possible to defeat Mateus in about 7 minutes by doing this.

You really should be at least level 45 to attempt this Esper.
Do the Mob Hunt mission for White Mousse to get the Water Gate Key.
Now go to the Central Control area and use the Water Gate Key to close the gates to the 11th and 4th areas. Do this using the little pedestals on the ground.
Now, go into the 4th Accessory District and activate the control for the 1st area gate.
Return to the Central Control area and reopen the 11th and 4th gates, then close the 10th and 3rd gates.
Next, go to the 3rd Accessory District and again close the switch to the 1st area.
Return again and open the 10th gate and close the 4th.
You will now be able to go to the south part of the 1st Control Area where you will find the Queklain Boss if you have done the steps correclty.
Gain the Queklain Esper after defeating the Boss.

Adrammeleck Esper is located at Athroza Quicksands in Zertinan Caverns. There are many other monsters around him that will join him. Do not attempt to attack Adrammeleck until you can regularly kill a lot of level 40 monsters all at the same time. Try to keep from pushing the battle to areas you have not been in to stop them from spwaning up from the ground.

Description: Have 3 players with the Arcane "Dark" magick. Garuda will attack Vossler first. While he does that, have all cast Dark now. It will do about 1,800 damage. Keep repeating this and Garuda will die.

You can do a lot of damage to Garuda by casting Reflect on all your characters before the battle. You can now cast Dark with all of you characters to the party itself. Dark will bounce off your character and hit Garuda.

There are specific strong weapons in the game, here they are and how can they be yours:

Zodiac spear
Don't open these chests in the game:
1.chest near dalan's house
2.all chest in the confiscatory area in the Royal Palace
3.chest in the south-east corner of the royal palace's cellars
4.one of 16 chests in the vaddu strand in phon coast(best not to open them)
go to necrohol of nabudis and find the area where it is held.(equip Diamond Armlet first)

Here's the trick.
First off, spend every single dollar you have on phoenix downs. Try to get a minimum of 25.
Then go to the Westersand, 'Sand Corridor', and stay RIGHT next to the border between areas.
Now hit yourself until you are at less than 10% HP.
A unique monster called Dustia will spawn. Use a Phoenix Down on it IMMEDIATELY (or else Dustia wil get a Dark off and kill you), and it will die.
Now, as it is dying you run back across the border to the other area. You MUST cross before the numbers for experience and LP show up. Then cross back, and Dustia will reappear. Repeat over and over again, and if you are quick you can grab the (extremely good) loot it drops before you run over the border.
It gives you 1000xp, 6 LP and the Books of Origan it drops are worth 538 Gil each. I got to level 21 with over 20000 gil by chaining this monster in under an hour. Best done with Vaan alone before you meet any other characters.

NOTE: Must be over lvl 55-60 (i 4got) and must have VERY STRONG WEAPONS AND ARMOR. Bubble, float, sleepga, and curaJa must be learned and must equip the embroidded tippet. Make sure magick power is strong.

First complete the hunts that the people in Jahara want you to kill. All I know is Catobles, Mindflayer, and dazzit but there are at least 3 more. Also, you must have 10 espers. Complete all this, and chat to one of the people in Jahara. I forgot the name so try talkin to all of em. He will tell you about the esper Zodiark and where it is. After that, go to Henne Mines and save your game on the crystal near the the place where you fought tiamat. After that again, go inot hte chamber where you fought tiamat. A new gate will be opened with new areas in henne mines. Once you go in, there will be no more save crystals.

WARNING! The weakest creature you can face in the new area is an abysteel which has over 20,000 hp and leech will suck in about 4000 hp. So dont 4get to bubble which doubles your HP.

There will be many traps along the way so use float. Then enter the area with the switch control thing. Set your gambits for all characters:

Foe: any Sleepga
Foe: any CuraJa ---------JA JA JA! not GA

Put these gambits all the way to the top in that order. First sleepga then curaja. Then flick the switch. Instead of Jellies dropping down like in the other area, a mess of Abysteels will come down! Thanks to the gambits, sleepga will put them all to sleep and just in case one of em doesnt like bed time, you got your other chracter's gambit whcih should be the same. Then your characters will use curaja on all of them which lowers there HP alot because of: abysteels are undead/ oh yea, the undead can be killed by being cured/ DO NOT USE POTIONS. Also curaja can be much stronger depending on magick power.Then you will kill them all and earn over 8000 exp (i think or could be 6000) but thanks to the embroidded tippet, you get double so yaaaaay. All of your characters will level up during each round of abysteels but when your party level is about 85, it might take 2 rounds.

XTRA: Having a problem with Zalera the esper cuz you cant attk and have to deal with all those zombies? EAZY! JUST USE CURAJA!!!!YAAAAAY! Then Zalera will die in about 5 minutes. hes a rank 2.

After the Phoros story part a fast way to level up one character is to fly your Strahl to Cerobi Steppe so you will be next to a save point.Have one character in your party.oh that character should know death (Arcane Magick).Just in cast, buff him or her.Finally your main enemy that your looking for is that RingWyrm (Red Dragon). Sometimes it goes to sleep. as soon as you see it use death on it quick. if it see you,you will catch hell.If death works, you will get 11077 exp. that is lvl 61, 60 will give you a little less but, it still in the 10000.If death do not work keep using it.
For a bonus equip the Embroidered Tippet for double the exp.

The Wild Saurian can be found in the Dalmasca Eastersand. Make sure your party level is at 99 because this is going to be VERY tough. Also, have dark matter with you.

Turn off your gambits first. Then find the Wild Saurian. Once you find it, DO NOT ATTACK IT YET. Find some wolves that are close to the area around the Wild Saurian. Then let a pack of wolves attack you. If you have good armor, then the attack will just be 0. Lure the pack of wolves to the Wild Saurian by walking. That way, if you just run and go too far from the wolves, they will not chase you anymore. Once the wolves are near the Wild Saurian, the Wild Saurian will use cannabilize on each wolf. Then use Libra and check the Wild Saurian's level, it should be about a level 72 after cannabalizing about 8 wolves. Find more wolves. Repeat these steps until the Wild Saurian becomes a level 99. This should take only about 15 minutes. The Wild Saurian will also have about 13500 HP. Now, attack it if you want. Once you do, the Wild Saurian will react to you and attack you. Each attack will do 9999 damage no matter how strong your armor is. Now, if you have weapons such as a tournesol or a zodiac spear, try attacking the Wild Saurian with them. They will only damage the Wild Saurian from 0 to 50!!! Trust me because i have experienced it. If your characters keep dying, use the dark matter item. It will kill the Wild Saurian with a total damage of 50,000.

NOTE: Equip diamond armlet. If the treasure doesn't have it, go back 3 screens and come back, the treasure will be there again. Also, beware, before you open the treasure, have the camera close up on it. Then open the treasure and if the treasure is still there, open it again and you will have the excalibur. Yes it is a glitch, a cool glitch -

This trick requires 2 or more party members. To gain near immortality, set all party member's Gambits to "If HP < 70" and "Cure" ~. Your party members will now constantly cure you and your MP will always regenerate. If you run out of MP, add another Gambit to use potions "If HP < 30".

Go to the lushu mines if you have already done so you will know there is a strech where loads of skeletons are coming out the floor go in go all the way to the end of the strech and then go out go back in and repeatedly do this you will get loads of exp from level 15-20 and you will colloect loads of items including bone fragments if you get a high chain if you get to about 220 chain you should not be able to get any more fragments because you should have about 99.

ZODIAC SPEAR #1
To get Zodiac Spear #1, You can not open 12 specific chests in 4 areas. The game itself offers no hints as to these locations. Thus, this is quite a difficult task to pull off for players whom feel the need to open every chest they find in the game.

The locations of each of the chests >>

Area 1: Chest North of the enterance to Lowtown.
[1 Chest ] - Do not open it.

Area 2: Furthest chest in the Southeast corner of the Cellars of the Royal Palace.
[1 Chest ] - Do not open it.

Area 3: Open no chests in the Confiscatory of the Royal Palace.
[9 Chests ] - Do not open any of these chests.

Area 4: One of the 16 chests on the east side of The Vaddu Strand in The Phon Coast. Hard to explain which one, so open none of them. The contents are low anyway.
[1 Chest ] - Open none of them untill you have the Zodiac Spear.

We suggest not opening ANY chests in ANY of these 4 areas to make certain you will get the 1st of 2 Zodiac Spears.

IF YOU OPENED NONE OF THESE 12 CHESTS, THE ZODIAC SPEAR WILL BE IN A CHEST WITHIN THE [NECROHOL OF NABUDIS] DUNGEON. THE OTHER CHESTS IN THE AREA WITH THE ZODIAC SPEAR WILL CONTAIN "DARK MATTER" IF YOU HAVE THE "DIAMOND GAUNTLETS" EQUIPPED BEFORE OPENING THEM.

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ZODIAC SPEAR #2

This one is harder to get! It is in the Henne Mines in the 2nd phase dig area, before you fight the Zodiark Esper. Thus to get this Zodiac Spear, you must have obtained at least 10 Espers (the requirement of obtaining Zodiark), or the area will not be opened.

The Zodiac Spear will then be in a chest in which spawns in the 2nd phase area. However, the chest only has small chance of appearing. And smaller chance of containing the Zodiac Spear.

To obtain this Zodiac Spear, you MUST have the Diamond Gauntlets equipped before opening the chest. It will NOT appear in the chest at all, without them equipped. If not equipped, you will only find gil.

First complete the Pharos event and the Seer hunt. If your still workin ur way thru the hunt, dats ok, as long as you are able to enter Umbra through the elevator near the teleport crystal. Go to umbra. Then go to the north-east room. open the door inside there and you should see a dragon lich. go inside the room where the lich is and kill him. try looking around the corners of the room and there should be a treasure. equip a diamond armlet and open the treasure. you should get the blade. if you didnt get the blade, wait till the chest respawns which may take awhile and repeat the steps. this took me 2 tries.

All merchants participate in the Bazaar system. The Bazaar often offers special deals and bargains based upon the amount of stuff you have sold to them. The loot sold to them is used to make item packages that are often cheaper than normal, or are exclusive to the Bazaar. Here is a list of Bazaars from collecting the following loot:

Ancient Turtle (1337)

From Adamantitan in Cerobi Steppe and Nabreus

Shell

Deadlands; poach from Silicon Tortoise in Giza Plains

Aquarius Gem (150)

From Golem in the Feywood

Arcana (10)

From rare monsters; From all monsters after obtaining Canopic Jar

Beastlord Horn (1334)

From Humbaba in Mosphoran Highwaste

Cancer Gem (150)

From Preying mantis in the Feywood

Capricorn Gem (150)

Steal from Neglamer

Charged Gizzard

From Thunderbug in the Henne Mines

Chimera Head

From Chimera brain in the Pharos

Coeurl Whisker

From Ose in Great Crystal upper layer; steal from Grimalkin in Tchita Uplands

Corpse Fly

From Dragon Lich in the Pharos

Damascus Steel

Dropped or stolen from Bune in the Pharos; steal from Vishno in the Pharos; steal from Anchang in Paramina Rift; steal from Bluesang in Cerobi Steppe

Deimos Clay

Reward for the clan hunt Paramina Run

Dorsal Fin

From Focalor in the Nabreus Deadlines

Empyreal Soul

Sell High Arcana x1

Soul Powder x1

Wargod's Band x2

Feystone

Dropped or stolen from Entite monsters

Gemini Gem

From Behemoth in the Feywood and Giruvegan; From Blood Gigas in the Stillshrine of Miriam; steal from Wendice

Godslayer's Badge

Reward for final clan hunt

Great Serpent's Fang

From Python in Mosphoran Highwaste

Hell-Gate's Flame

From Cerberus in the Feywood

High Arcana, Sell Arcana x10, Soul of Thamasa x1

Feystone x1 to Bazaar; From many monsters after obtaining key item Canopic Jar

Horakhty's Flame

Reward for clan hunt "Crime And Punishment"

Leshach Halcyon

Dropped or stolen from Leshach Entitie in Paramina Rift during snowstorm

Libra Gem

From Ose in Great Crstal upper layer; From Tartarus in the Feywood

LuShang's Badge

Complete the fishing mini-game

Mirror Scale

From Mirrorknight in the Feywood; From Dreadguard in the Feywood

Moondust

From Mu in the Feywood

Mythrill

From Mythrill Golem in Giruvegan

Omega Badge

From Omega MK

Orichalcum

From Deidar in the Pharos; dropped or stolen from Vishno in the Pharos

Phobos Glaze

Reward for clan hunt "Paradise Risen"

Ring Wyrm Liver

From Shield Wyrm in Cerobi Steppe

Sagittarius Gem

From Hecteyes in the Henne Mines east section; dropped or stolen with Thief's Cuffs from Oiling in the Stilshrine of Miriam

Salamand Halcyon

Dropped or stolen from Salamand Entite in the Ogir-Yensa

Sandsea During Sunny Weather

Reward for Gibbs and Deweg side quest

Scarletite

From Emeralditan in Nabreus Deadlands; steal from Aspidochelon in Cerobi Steppe

Scorpio Gem

Steal from Gargoyle Baron in Giruvegan; steal from Larva Eater in Great Crystal upper layer

Serpent Eye

From Basilisk in the Feywood

Serpentarius

Clan reward for collecting all 13 Espers; steal from Zodiark in the Henne Mines east section; sell High Arcana x1

Snake Skin x4

Serpent Eye x2 to Bazaar

Sickle Blade

From Preying Mantis in the Feywood; steal from Rageclaw in the Salikawood

Description: Start by killing the 3 soldiers with Vossler. Vossler attacks do not inflict too much damage so it is easier once the soldiers are dead. After he is down to a forth of his health, he will use Enrage. Enrage makes him go wild and attack quicker. Now be careful because Vossler can kill your characters rather quickly this way. To help now just summon your Esper, Belias. but takes full MP. You may want to use a character that is not in your active party. Now have the character that summoned Belias step back so that Vossler will target Belias instead of a character. Summonning Belias after Vossler used Enrage then Belias will kill him. Make sure you heal Belias when needed.

Here is another way to defeat Vossler. Get at least 3 characters over level 18 and all have at least level 3 Mist. Practice doing Mist Chains. A 13 chain Mist combo will most likely kill Vossler and most enemies. You can also make sure that one of your characters can summon Belias for a backup just in case you cannot chain your Mist abilities together.

The hidden baknamy merchant is in the hall of efugelent light in the Necrohol of Nabudis.
There should be one corridor tgat has some elvorets in it and ends at a dead end and a room on the right. If you go in the room you should see 2 more rooms not on the map. There should be what looks like red treasure. It is actually a moderately strong mimic called pandora. In the room with pandoraif you go to the top left hand corner your character should have ??? above his head press x and the merchant should appear.
He sells maximilians, magepowershishaks,(Which for one of each costs 32,000gil) Demon shields( i think cost 40,000gil i can't remember.) He sells ethers and telekenisis and scathe. (scathe costs 18,000 gil) You may need quite a bit of money but it is worth it for the stuff

Description: Just attack him with weapons and use a lot of wind magic (Aero). This should make him go down pretty quickly. You can summon an Esper to defeat him very fast, just make sure you are at full MP. The Esper will help greatly.

If you enter the battle with the undying equipped with the white mask, he will not use holy on you. But if your wearing some other headwear he will use it. Now i,m giong to tell you something that will really piss him off. When he's ready to use holy on one of the characters, open up the menu and equip the white mask on the character who is about to get hit. Doing so, will not hurt your character, instead giving him or her at least 3000 to 4000 HP.

Although the Javelin and other weapons have a great attack, it is recommended you only use weapons that allow the use of a shield in the off-hand. When the shield is not equipped your allies die faster. So best use the shield to defend.

When the last stage of Vayne (last transformation) begins, attack him once and then turn off your gambits and just wait. Vayne will keep attacking you and thats why your supposed to be lvl 99. Equip bubble belt if needed. Continue to do nothing (cure if needed). Wait until Vayne does all his gigaflare and sword thing. Then he will use his ultimate attack. Notice how he starts blinking red after he is done with that move. Attack him again and he will die, if your weapon is weak, attack him a few more times. He will die. :]

You have to be at least level 4.
Go to the Sandsea and look at the board that has information for all the hunts.
Choose the "Thextera" hunt then chat to Gatsly, who should be EAST of the board.
Go into the Westersands. Do not look for Thextera yet.
Defeat all the wolves in the area

When you locate Flowering Cactoid, defeat all of the surrounding enemies in the area. He will now have no where to run and hide. Now just defeat him. Although you can do this with just Vaan, it is much easier if you do this hunt after Penelo has joined.

First go to the place in Phon Coast where you see a mess of treasures. Open them all. This will have something to do with the pack of treasures in the Necrohol of Nabudis. Open the tresures at phon coast in a certain way because in nabudis, you will have to open the treasures the same way. I know you might not get the Zodiac Spear because of all this but its worth waaaaaaaaaay better! Then equip Diamond Armlet with one of your characters.

NOTE: Make sure zodiark is dead.

Then go to henne mines and in the middle of the arena where zodiark was, there will be a treasure. After you open it, there WILL be another treasure in its place. Cool huh? Everytime you open this treasure, another will take its place. UNLIMITED TREASURE AND GUESS WHAT? WITH THE DIAMOND ARMLET, THE TREASURE CONTAINS A TOURNESOL, A ZODIAC SPEAR, WYRMHERO, ULTIMA BLADE, MAXIMILLIAN, DARK MATTER, ETC WITH A 100% CHANCE!!!!!!! If you dont equip diamond armlet, then you will only get weak armor, weak weapons, knot of rusts, etc. THIS TREASURE IS SO UNLIMITED YOU CAN GET AT LEAST A BILLION ZODIAC SPEARS!!!! I SWEAR!!!!!!! PLEASE TRUST ME!!!! In truth, I did not get this cheat from other people. I found it out myself. I guess it was a glitch if you ask me but DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

All merchants in the game take part in the Bazaar system. The Bazaar often offers exclusive deals and bargains based upon the amount of loot you have sold to merchants. The loot is used to make item packages that are often cheaper than normal, or are exclusive to the Bazaar. The rarest Bazaars are from collecting the following loot:

Ancient Turtle (1337): Drops from Adamantitan in Cerobi Steppe and Nabreus
Shell: Deadlands poach from Silicon Tortoise in Giza Plains
Aquarius Gem (150): Drops from Golem in the Feywood
Arcana (10): Drops from rare monsters drops from all monsters after obtaining Canopic Jar
Beastlord Horn (1334): Drops from Humbaba in Mosphoran Highwaste
Cancer Gem (150): Drops from Preying mantis in the Feywood
Capricorn Gem (150): Steal from Neglamer
Charged Gizzard: Drops from Thunderbug in the Henne Mines
Chimera Head: Drops from Chimera brain in the Pharos
Coeurl Whisker: Drops from Ose in Great Crystal upper layer steal from Grimalkin in Tchita Uplands
Corpse Fly: Drops from Dragon Lich in the Pharos
Damascus Steel: Dropped or stolen from Bune in the Pharos steal from Vishno in the Pharos steal from Anchang in Paramina Rift steal from Bluesang in Cerobi Steppe
Deimos Clay: Reward for the clan hunt "Paramina Run"
Dorsal Fin: Drops from Focalor in the Nabreus Deadlines
Empyreal Soul: Sell High Arcana x1: Soul Powder x1: Wargod's Band x2
Feystone: Dropped or stolen from Entite monsters
Gemini Gem: Drops from Behemoth in the Feywood and Giruvegan drops from Blood Gigas in the Stillshrine of Miriam steal from Wendice
Godslayer's Badge: Reward for final clan hunt
Great Serpent's Fang: Drops from Python in Mosphoran Highwaste
Hell-Gate's Flame: Drops from Cerberus in the Feywood
High Arcana: Sell Arcana x10: Soul of Thamasa x1: Feystone x1 to Bazaar drops from many monsters after obtaining key item Canopic Jar
Horakhty's Flame: Reward for clan hunt "Crime And Punishment"
Leshach Halcyon: Dropped or stolen from Leshach Entitie in Paramina Rift during snowstorm
Libra Gem: Drops from Ose in Great Crstal upper layer drops from Tartarus in the Feywood
LuShang's Badge: Successfully complete the fishing mini-game
Mirror Scale: Drops from Mirrorknight in the Feywood drops from Dreadguard in the Feywood
Moondust: Drops from Mu in the Feywood
Mythrill: Drops from Mythrill Golem in Giruvegan
Omega Badge: Drops from Omega MK: X11 in Great Crystal upper layer
Orichalcum: Drops from Deidar in the Pharos dropped or stolen from Vishno in the Pharos
Phobos Glaze: Reward for clan hunt "Paradise Risen"
Ring Wyrm Liver: Drops from Shield Wyrm in Cerobi Steppe
Sagittarius Gem: Drops from Hecteyes in the Henne Mines east section dropped or stolen with Thief's Cuffs from Oiling in the Stilshrine of Miriam
Salamand Halcyon: Dropped or stolen from Salamand Entite in the Ogir-Yensa
Sandsea During Sunny Weather: Reward for Gibbs and Deweg side quest
Scarletite: Drops from Emeralditan in Nabreus Deadlands steal from Aspidochelon in Cerobi Steppe
Scorpio Gem: Steal from Gargoyle Baron in Giruvegan steal from Larva Eater in Great Crystal upper layer
Serpent Eye: Drops from Basilisk in the Feywood
Serpentarius: Clan reward for collecting all 13 Espers steal from Zodiark in the Henne Mines east section sell High Arcana x1: Snake Skin x4: Serpent Eye x2 to Bazaar
Sickle Blade: Drops from Preying Mantis in the Feywood steal from Rageclaw in the Salikawood

Shemhazai's Devour Soul adds to Dark Matter just like Knots of rust do and vice versa. Every time you use Soul Purge it resets both Soul Purge and Dark Matter to zero. Same with Dark Matter....use it and you reset both Dark Matter and Soul Purge.

If you want to charge Dark Matter but are short of knots of rust then just use Shemhazai and Devour Soul and dismiss it before it uses Soul Purge.

Fafnir will only appear during a blizzard so talk to Ralj the Petitioner for the Hunt.
In the Temple Approach in Mt. Bur-Omisace to start the blizzard, Take the route to Freezing Gorge, Head of the Silverflow, Icebound Flow, Karydine Glacier, Silverflow's End. (You got fallow this intructions, that way the blizzard will not end.)

When you're able to see it, There should be a crevace to run into where Fafnir won't be able to attack you physically, Cast reflect on all your party and use the fallowing Gambits:

- Ally: Any - Thundaga

Targetting an ally instead of Fafnir will cast Thundaga 3 times, instead of just once because it's an "area" magick atack.
So in one round you're hitting him with Thundaga 9 times instead of just 3, and you'll be able to kill it without too much problems.

Tired of being ambushed by millions of monsters? Then this glitch is the one for you!

89%

Here's what to do. Put just the SECOND most strongest person in your party. [Why? Because they have a better chance of surviving if the spell(s) wear off!] Have them cast either Stop, Immobilize [or any spell that prevents them from moving completely] on themselves. Once you have done that, put your normal party leader in your party, so it should just be the leader and the person with Stop/Immobilize ect. inflicted.
If you continue on your way, the other person will not follow. When you get surrounded [or if you can't wait to see how this thing works, just find a foe and go near them so they target you], then switch to the other person, then immediately switch back. The enemies should disappear. **You'll know if it worked if the leader's name is not in red.
HOWEVER, if the other person's HP bar is still visible, or if you can still see their tiny blue dot on the map, it will not work. So you may need to move father away from them.

It does work, whether or not you trust me is up to you. Also, this tip is helpful when you're fighting your way through Henne to get Zodiark.

To get this holy elemental Two Handed Sword you must first have finished the events at The Great Crystal completely. After doing so go back inside this dungeon until you reach The Great Crystal – A Prama Vikaari again (the first screen). You are currently in platform VIII from there they are 3 routes one is up, one is down and another is sealed by Gate Scorpio. Go up, press the switch and return to platform VIII. There follow the just unsealed path up. You’ll reach platform IX, use the way stone to reach platform X. From platform X follow the only path until you get to XX platform. XX platform has two sealed Gate Sagittarius, one way down, two ways up, another way is where you come from. Go in the opposite direction of where you came from (which leads you down) continue a couple of screens and you’ll find a switch, press it and return to XX before the time runs out. In XX unseal Gate Sagittarius 2, not 1. Follow the new path and you’ll find yourself in platform XII, use the way stone to get to XIV platform, there go the way that goes up, press the switch in the next screen and return to platform XIV before the time runs out. There go the way down, keep going the only path through some platforms until third platform where they are two paths take the one that goes down.
If you have done the steps above correctly you'll find yourself in a screen with one horse type enemy and a chest, as soon as you go to the center of the platform two more horse type enemies will appear. Get rid of them and cast float because there is a trap just below of the chest, be sure to equip the Diamond armlet, because it really helps. Now open the chest you can get gil, a sage ring or gil+Excalibur, how is that possible? When you first examine it the message will tell you you got gil, but the chest won't disappear, check it again and the Excalibur is all yours.
If you couldn't get it in your first try, don't worry, just go back 3 screens and the chest will re-spawn.
NOTE: You CANNOT get more than 1 Excalibur. (from this chest)
I will tell you the location of the other chest later. So stay tuned.

Once you're on the quest for the city of Giruvegan (about halfway or farther into the game, I estimate), you'll be allowed access to the Mist-protected areas of The Feywood. So, head there. Then go South forever, past the Save Crystal area,past the Redolent Glade (where the plant boss was), and keep going still. The Southmost area of the Feywood is the THe Edge of Reason. A little West of the centerof this area, you'll find a treasure. Inside here is a Deathbringer. Careful, though.The trap around the treasure deals 2500+ damage, so try not to trigger it. This chest also might hold an Ensanguined Shield, which is alright too.

When in the Giza Plains during the Rain season, there are five withered trees on the banks of the water. Knock them all down and they will float down the river and cause a path to form in the south bank. Cross it and go all the way to the southeast corner to find an urn. Open it and you will get the Feather Of The Flock. It gives you a bond with Cockatrices.

In the pharos subterra, go in any door and fight your way to what appears to be a dead end. search the "dead end" room by the walls and you may find a treasure or fool's fascades. if you open the chests with the diamond armlets equipped they will have knot of rust or a lot of gil but if you open them without the diamond armlets equipped then you can get some ribbons, dueler's masks, lordly robes, circlets, and more really strong equipment. the majority of the armor should be the strongest Light Armor, Mystic Armor, and Heavy armor. this is also where you can find the Seer and Ixion marks as well as the magick pots (trust me, you need elixers to even kill them).

Ok guys, it's not really a cheat, it's an anti cheat. You know the guy who wrote about the ultimate glitch..well there is no ultimate glitch! I did an experiment, I had an early save file, where I did not open the chests in the phon coast. Then I went to necrohol and found the chests. I reloaded the game again(the same file),went to phon coast, opened all the chests, and there were no chests in necrohol. I reloaded the same file again, opened only half of the chests in phon coast, then I went to necrohol, and only found 8 chests there. I'm not finished yet! I opened 4 of these 8 chests, therefore I left 4, went to phon coast again...and GUESSS WHATTT?! yess, I found only 4 chests in the phoncoast.

All this concludes that the ultima glitch of that guy, the one that if you open the treasures in the necrohol the same wayyyyy you open them in the phoncoast you will find a great weapon in henne mines(zodiac spear, tournesol, wyrmhero sword)...is untrue and a myth!
Hope I was of any help. goodluck with your game!

Are you tired of losing against garuda time after time. well if so I have a stratedgy that will ease the stress of getting a game over every time you face this stupid bird.
firstly level to 15+ and bring some half decent ranged weapons for instance killer bows,
vegas ,longbows ect ,ect.
when you go in to battle blind garuda so it has less chance of hitting you. blinding him is very useful because his attacks do 600+ dmg. per hit which will kill your party in one or two hits. 600-900 at least.
note:when blind wears of you should have almost deafeated garuda so there is no point on casting it on him again plus vossler will cast balance which does about 1300 dmg.
blinding garuda is pretty much all there is to this fight.
quikenings are useless since you can only get a 4 chain at most doing 2000+ dmg. it may sound a lot of dmg all but i'd rather not use them and not lose all my mp than use them and lose it all

Staff of the magi is the best staff in the game to have this staff you must complete the story event in pharos at ridorana completely.then,go to montblanc and take the hunt ixion.go to pharos then go to the elevator near the teleport crystal and go to penumbra find ixion and kill him.after that go to the petitioner and take your reward(you get the ragnarok and a few gil). then go to montblanc again and sign for the seer hunt then go to the penumbra again and find phoenix.after you kill it light up all the pedestal of night using the black orbs and return to the elevator again and go to umbra light up the pedestal of night again and return to the elevator and go to abyssal and light up the pedestal again and go to the elevator and go to unknown to fight the shadowseer and kill him after that go to abyssal the north-west area and find the rare game called vagrant soul kill it(it has a 25% of spawning behind the ancient door)after you kill it go to umbra south-west area without leaving the subterra or save the game and find another rare game called luxollid and steal from it don't attack it just steal everything you got(equipping the thief cuffs will be a good idea)and just steal from it until you got the staff.after that kill him and CONGRATULATIONS you just got the strongest staff in the game.

First make a gambit like this:
Foe:any/nearest visable ------------>knot of rust.

Go around the westersands and the panamira rift with this gambit.
You are going to need to use 99 knots of rust's 6 times.
Make sure you have atleast one dark matter to use on Omega Mark 12.
Once done using all the knots of rusts enter the battle with Omega Mark 12.
Immediatly use the dark matter and watch around 2million of damage appear on Omega.

Omega Mark 12 only has 1370699 hp so 2million is a little over kill but I know you want to do it.

If you found this intersting or usefull dont forget to rate. I also have posted a game file on Cheat Masters. So If you want a lv99 team with all items, weapons, accesores, and gambits at the begining of game and you have a Action Replay use it!
Dont forget to rate it too!

All right, when Omega starts flashing red, he's more likely to kick you back were you came from but I know a way how to finish him off no prob.

When Omega starts flashing red, run out of the battle scene up the path where you came from (but not all the way to the top, just so Omega doesn't attack you like crazy) and the person who has got zodiark, cast stone on him/her then summon him. Run to Omega and Zodiark will use the Final Eclipse, that should deal 50,000 damage but only deals 25,000. Now run back and throw a elixir on the person who summoned Zodiark. Now summon him again and you still have petrify on you so run back to Omega and Zodiark will Use the Final Eclispe again. Alls you have to do is repeat this and you will kill Omega in no time (but remember, your character will still have petrify on him/her so cure it and cast it on yourself again.) Now finish of Omega.

(TIP: Don't stay out of battle for too long though because Omega will start to heal himself rapidly. Has long as he is still attacking your fine, just cure the ones that's getting attacked. Good Luck!

I know the topic of discussion is levelling up for lower levels, but for anyone who's interested, if you're planning on leveling up to 99, once you get to about level 50-65 a great place to level up is in the Nabreus Deadlands...the location is called Overlooking Eternity...it can't be seen on the map but if you head south from the orange save crystal and then West, (stay along the north wall) you will find the hidden path...they're are about 25-30 dead bones in this area and with one group member fighting and wearing an embroidered tippet(double exp and sold at Old Archades), they can gain about 9000 exp per 1 deadbone. This means from going into Overlooking Eternity once, a group member could gain anywhere from 225,000 - 270,000 exp. Set a gambit for bubble/haste/protect/shell, preferably you'll have a Golden Axe(Get from Dalmasca Estersands north village), if not, another high-end weapon. You should have the magic holy(from Balfonheim just before Pharos)since dead bnones are weak to it. After killing all dead bones, zone 2 maps away and come back. If you want, you can chain the dead bones and they start dropping multiple items that can be sold for a lot of gil. In no time at all, you'll be level 99 across the board. Have Fun!
~Emily

Beat this guy with having many chain and have ark blast it does lots of dammage
use remedis when he does a spore thing. (need to hav some good licence point to get more healing fo reamydy.) and use berserk to people to lost all there mp.
all characters must be at least lv 24 to what ever you want that is higher. happy fighting!

In the Paramina Rift there is a great place go get a great deal of EXP quickly and easily. Go to the Spine of the Icewyrm (check your map) and there are two Twintanias and about three Garuda-Egis. The Twintanias alone drop between 600 to 750 EXP a piece.

When finished (or if you get low on health) retreat to the Path of the First Fall and use the save crystal. Save an reload the game so the the beasts respawn. This is a great way to grind out some levels before going into the Stilshrine of Miriam.

I might have overdone this, but it sure works with minimal time and effort. First equip everyone with spears, barbuts, iron armor and argyle armlets. This will give you maximum power/speed ratio. If you do not have the money nor LP to do this, go just west of the Sandsea Moogle in the the Sanscale Bank and you will find enemies called Alraune. Kill them all, go back to to the moogle and 1 screen east.

This makes the monsters respawn and takes a little time, go back and kill them again. Steal succullent fruits and maces from them (set gambit) and they also drop succulent fruits very often. The maces sell at 900 gold but these fruits sell at 363 each and you can quickly build up 99 of of the fruits since you ccan respawn them quickly. If you want to keep the combo up, when you have 99 succulent fruits, flee all the way back to the merchant without touching a save crystal, sell them all for 35,937 gold, flee all the way back to the Alraunes and repeat the process as needed.

Set all gambits to attack nearest and heal manually. Start with the people that do not have quickenings in case they get ejected from battle (with a little luck it will be Vossler) And use all quickenings at the end if needed. For higher level characters, just attack and you should even have time to steal. All my guys were level 17 – 20 and I had a little difficulty until Vossler was ejected instead of one of my party members, then it was easy.

First go to the save point at the southern part of gramsythe waterway.
now YOU GOT TO TAKE THE GIRLS THERE, go to their but dont save, just refresh your self. then return back to the most southern chamber, WAIT before you enter do as many good status effects as you can. NOW UR LVL SHOULD BE I THINK BETWEEN 30- 40 something there. now enter and head south he will appear. HUGE HA. now its good to cast berserk on two girls and the other must be used as for recovering. you can bring boys out as you find it but before that use girls.
He is good so watch out

Previous incarnation: As the Aries Lucavi demon Velius in Final Fantasy
Tactics. Velius was probably a mistranslation of Belias that was used in the
Japanese version.

The fire-based Belias has the distinction of being the first Esper you will
get, the weakest Esper you have, the hardest Esper to appear on your
Skypirate's Den page, and the only Esper you MUST summon in the game to
complete it. The gods created Belias but deemed this two-headed, four-armed
beast a monstrosity, so they kicked him away. Angered at the abandonment,
Belias rebelled against the gods with the other Espers, but failed and instead
found another purpose in life: to guard the Tomb of King-Dynast Raithwall.

Cost: 10 LP. Mist Charge level: 1
Defense: 20. Magick Defense: 15

Absorbs fire.
Weak to water.
Halves damage received from the other six elements.

Be at least level 17 for the first esper. Have one healer. I always use Ashe, but hey, it's your decision. Use Basch for healing if you want, though you shouldn't since he is the strongest character. It's a known fact how strong he is. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE WATER. Set the first gambit on all of your main party's gambits. You can get water from Dyce. Dyce actually can always appear in the very bottom of the Ogir Yensa Sandsea, where the teleport crystal is. HE ALWAYS APPEARS. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS. Even when you get to the stage of the game where you go to Balfonheim. Let's repeat. ALWAYS. He sells raise and cura. Cura cures a good amount a HP to each party member. At first it costs 32 MP to cast. IT gets lower by each few levels. You don't need it, but it's really useful and easy. Raise is sort of like pheonix down, but the reason it's different is only because it's a magic. Raise costs around 22 MP, possibly 27. This can be extremly useful, because it gives you more HP than Pheonix down. It gets rid of KO. Buy an iron hammer for at least one party member. Buy extra potions, and keep Vossler alive. Great party members to use are Basch, Balthier, and Vaan or Fran. Dont take Penelo. You might wanna take Ashe for a healer, if not use Vaan or Fran as a healer. DEFINATLY use at least Balthier, Basch or possibly Fran. If not then Vaan. If you don't know how to get to the cloister of flame(I had trouble for about 3 weeks.), all you do is find the two gems in each area with those three waystones(ok actually above and below that main area, and when you touch the last gem you will see a passage, when that acient table thing raises down in the south part. Look it up.)yeah. Now that's enough so go fight him! Hope this helps!
~Emily

When on the Arcadian ship Leviathan after saving Ashe go out to the four way after defeating the the imperials turn to ether side and go in the circle the imperials will keep on coming and where they run out just go to the next room!

While in the Lhusu Mines, far into the game, or at the Gilgamesh Mark Hunt, go to the bridge that is pointing South-West (or South-East). It's a diagonal. Anyway, enter and re-enter in a few times until you see a black Bomb (Bullitt) appear. Kill it, and you'll have a chance of getting the Yagyu Darkblade (called the Yagyuu's Onyx in the Japanese version).

You cannot go here until the get the Area 11 key, which is conveniently located in the Phon Coast and the Hunter's Camp, somewhere around one of inhabitants (look for the sparkiling object on the ground). Note: you must have done the Antlion mob first.

There are multiple ways to break the damage limit.
Here are some I recommend:
Balance: Take a party member with a hp over 5000. Damage him/her until he is in critical condition. Then use bubble on him/her. Use balance on a monster that has more hp than you.
Tada! You just broke the 9999 damage cap.

Dark Matter: This is what I used to kill yiazmat under 20 minutes. The easiest way to get 99 dark matter is to open the Demonsbane chest in the tomb of king raithwail with a diamond armlet equiped. Then go to the mythru baazar in Rabanastre. By 99 knots of rust. Use all of the knots of rust on enemys or yourself. Then when your facing one bad*** of a monster use a dark matter and watch the HUGE amount of damage done.

There are other ways to break the damage limit but I'll post them another time.

To get the Ragnarok with 109 attack power, you must pass the Pharos at Ridorana. After you pass the Pharos, go to the clan hall and talk to Montblance. He will give you a special hunt to kill Ixion. Once accepted, go back to the Pharos at Ridorana. You must be at least level 66. Purchase a Golden Axe for 18,000 Gil and some Echo Herbs and Eye Drops. Equip the Golden Axe to your strongest character. It will take a ranged damage of 1 to 9,999. Make sure you have three Bubble Belts to double your maximum HP. To find him, go to the lift just when you get in and take it up to Penumbra. It will require a few attempts to find and kill him. Once you do, go back to the petitioner and he will give you the Ragnorok.

First you must complete the Antilion Mob Hunt Mark V.
The Formalhaut is the best gun in the game, to get it go back to Lhusu mines, to the screen called "Site 9" where Antilion Mob Hunt Mark V was, in his place you'll find a chest, open it and you'll receive this weapon, it has 50 points of attack power and like the rest fo the guns it ignores the defense power of enemies and can't miss.

This is a trick to exploit the endless spawning of Ghasts by Negalmuur to gain
endless Levels, EXP and LP.

Step 1: Preparations.

-Get all of your characters to at least LV. 30
-Equip them with the most up to date weapons and armors.
-Having all three mist charges is recommended because of the MP boost you get.
-A short while after defeating Mateus you will be able to buy remedies at loot
shops. Buy 99 so that you can do it over a long perod of time.
-Get "Remedy Lore 3" on the license board. It allows remedy to cure Doom.

Have all characters lvl 20 and over, and have strong weapons.also have qiuckenings for each character.on each of these bosses,use all of your quickenings. when the quickenings are casted,3/4 of their health is gone so you merely have to just attck them a little and they will die easily.

At the stilshrine of miriam at the first pedestal in the room, touch it without the dawn shard equiped and three zombies will appear. keep doing this for as long as you want!
NOTE: I would kill the other enemies before you start because one of your players could kill them which would end your chain. hope this helped.

If you’re having trouble defeating Braegh in the "Rodeo to the Death" hunt, all you have to do is cast Reflect on the party. Since Braegh casts Invert on your party as soon as you engage him in battle, the spell will be reflected on him, leaving him with roughly 10% of his full health.

If you have trouble defeating chaos it doesn't matter if you can't attack when you already defeat fury and humbaba mistant don't go to the room with Chaos.go to the screen called hall of effulgent light and find the hidden baknamy merchant in the dead end with a room that doesn't shown in the map.there should be a pandora (a colorful treasure chest.It is a powerful mimic.).Just check the left wall and your character will have ? in his/her head press x and the merchant will come out then buy a telekinesis and scathe.after that battle Chaos don't worry about the Chaosjet just cast scathe and the jets will die.then focus on Chaos don't worry about your mp. Just use your mp for healing and scathe.just cast telekinesis to Chaos(but don't use a weapon with element,if you do this you will heal him).After 10 - 15 minutes casting telekinesis to Chaos he will die and become yours.

While in the lhusu mines,far into game,or at the Gilamesh mark Hunt go to the bridge that is pointing South-West (or South-east) it's a diagonal.Anway, enter and re-enter in afew times until you see black bomb (Bullitt)appear.Kill it,and you'll have a chance of getting the Yagyu Darkblade(called the yagyuu's Onyx in the Japanse version)

After the Zodiark battle is available, start the fight with just one person. he WILL use Darkja so have things the eat darkness and the have high defense.(in fact, don't fight until you r AT LEAST a lv 70) when he uses paling, dispel him if he has reflect on and blast him with scathe. revive any dead members ASAP (using the L and R Buttons you can switch to reserve members) and DO NOT use summons or quickenings as they won't work well and you WILL need as much MP AS POSSIBLE. also, if you have ribbons before the fight, them USE THEM. it also helps if gambits are set as this:

The easiest way to get zodiac spear is not to open any of the treasure chests in the game.It will appear in nechrohol of nabudis in the cloister of high born where there are many treasure chests.It's a little to the left of the first chest.But don't use a gold amulet or you will get a dark matter instead.

At level 20 you can do the quest Withered tree bridge in Giza Plains. There are six withered trees located around the map, after all six are chopped down you can gain access to the level 37 silicon tortoise.

The way to get tons of experience points per fight is to get to the location via party. Make sure all members have job trait charge magic, reflect and gravity.

When you zone into area where the tortoise are located go solo with one character, cast refect on yourself and start fight off with steal, once you steal start running in a circle around the tortoise in safe distance as not to get hit by the mob or its lights out.

It will start to cast AGA spells on you but with reflect on they will bounce of yourself and hit the tortoise instead. While circling around the tortoise cast gravity over and over. It will do around 3000 damage to the tortoise and eventually will take the mob down for around 3,500 exp per kill. There are four tortoise on the island so the experience will add up quickly.

Zodiac Spear
The most powerful weapon in the game has a trick to it that those who have to open EVERY treasure chest would miss out on. There are 4 places with treasure chests that must NOT be opened in order for the Zodiac Spear to appear:

1) Treasure chest in Lowtown, outside of Old Dalan's place
2) When sneaking into the palace (Before getting the Goddess Tear), there are several chests in the Cellar. Do not open the two chests in the southeast corner.
3) All treasure chests in the Confiscatory (the place where you get your weapons and armor back after being captured)
4) In the Phon Coast, later in the game, there is an island with 16 chests all near each other. The 4th chest that must NOT be opened is among these, so it is best to leave them all alone. They only contain Gil anyway.

If you've left all these treasures be, you'll find the Zodiac Spear in the Necrohol of Nabudis. It sports a whopping +150 attack and, like all spears, +8 Evasion.

You will only get 250 gil and 2 bacchu wines.But you will also get 50,000 or 500,000 and a rod of faith.After completing the hunt go Mt.Bur Omisace and go to the temple approach area.If you examine the area carefully you will find a behemoth snort or a beast snort or something.If vaan is not equipped with any weapons you can strike it and get the reward.

Firstly bring 2 yagyu onyx/darkblades and one zodiac spear and make sure your party is level 99

NOTE:equip genji gloves to one of the people that is eqiped with yagyu onyx/darkblade then they'll get more hits onto yiazmat and you will probobly do 9999 damage depending what armour you use (i used maximmilions for everyone)

for most of the fight have curaja in your gambits because its easier than using reverse/decoy trick because you'll lose mp way faster when yiazmat has ten bars left thats when you use reverse/decoy

PHASE TWO
"CHAIN-LOOTING for EFFECT"
At risk of seeming a spammer - I thought that this section ought to be a seperate post. In my other cheat post ("Opening game Fast Lane" or something like that), I showed how early chain-hunting in the game can break players out of the low levels and abilities that we all start out at in the game. It seems time consuming, but that's exactly what kind of a game we have here. It is GOING to take a bit of stubborness to get to a point where the game begins to seriously ROCK! It's good though if it can be a bit less tedious and brain-deadeningly boring as doing the same stuff over and over gets to be after a while. The one thing that makes chain-hunting (or "CHAIN LOOTING", as I think of it) bearable is that you can directly see all of your abilities and loot levels climbing a lot faster than any other way. It helps a whole lot if you don't have to stay in the same place, changes of scenery are a Godsend...

With that in mind, once the basic licenses are gained, and your Characters ("CHARS") are at or around level fifteen - it's high time to blast off for a bit! Do the Sunstone quest, puree the Rogue Tomato (I still can't help thinking of it as "The Attack of the Killer Tomato"!), do the Garamsythe Sewers, Palace, Prison, and Escape quests. Go to the floating city, etc, etc... Once you find yourself at Raithwall's Tomb, it becomes time for chain looting at a different level. You now have several party members (three 'active' and one 'guest') and you need them to properly raid the Nam Yensa and the Ogir Yensa desert areas.

Urutan Yensa's like to cast "SILENCE" and "SLEEP" at your party. Sleep can be dealt with by either using up a lot of Alarm Clock items, or by ignoring it. Seriously - switch to a new party leader and forget about the missing member until they wake up.

SILENCED members are another story. We have to have people (except for the "GUEST") who can cast CURE or FIRST AID to maintain the party. But at the Tomb of Raithewall we meet a very helpful travelling merchant: "DYCE".
WARNING! This merchant will disappear after the tomb is cleared, so use him while he's around.
I know that from an earlier run-through that I keep saved so that I can load it to read maps and things.

DYCE offers at least four weapons that are absolutely fascinating:
1) Ancient Sword: This weapon has a fairly low (compared to what you may already have collected) attack factor, but it has another attribute - "ON HIT/PETRIFY"
2) Chopper: Like the Ancient Sword, low attack. But THIS ONE's attribute is: "ON HIT/SAP" - causing additional CONTINUAL damage to a foe
3) Iron Hammers: At this point in the game, arguably the most powerful weapon so far in terms of shear attack rating
4) Assassins Dagger: Attack power 25 - but the attribute is "ON HIT/KO" ! That means exactly what it says - a chance to KILL OFF with ONE HIT
*All four of these allow the use of a "BUCKLER" or a "Bronze Shield" in the off hand for extra defence

ARMOR goodies from Dyce include:
1) Rose Corsage: These make party members immune to "SILENCE". You want a half dozen of them no matter what...
2) Heavy Coat
3) Bronze Shield
4) Balaclava ( a kind of hat)
* 2, 3, and 4 above are the best so far in the game

A further note on weapons - Flying Foes will be a problem from here on out, so a good distance weapon is needed (six of them, in fact). GUNS have high penetrating power, but for pure Attack Power, BOWS beat guns hands down! You should also be on the lookout for any kind of ammunition for guns and bows that is better than "ONION" grade ammo. Dyce sells "Killer Bows", the best so far. If you already have bows though, you can always wait until shortly after the Tomb of Raithwall because the "YOICHI BOW" that is available from a merchant in the Mosphoran Highwaste is the absolute best you will see for some time to come. But you're not there yet, so the Killer Bows are a good investment now.

THE BAZAAR:
The items in the Bazaar may seem like junk at first, but the stuff offered is more than it looks like. ANY TIME you see a BOW or ARCHERS EQUIPMENT offered in the Bazaar (or GUNS) buy them. The bow or gun may turn out to be lesser equipment, but the ammunition that comes with them can be used with better guns and bows.
Things like "Hollow Arrows" or Bamboo Arrows" which have the ability to cause POISON damage, also "SILENT SHOT" which inflicts SILENCE from whatever gun you use it with. Buy the guns and bows FOR THE AMMO! You can always sell off the bow or gun seperately...

BE WARNED that in the OGIR Yensa Sandsea there are two FIRE ELEMENTALS that each appear in a different area to the north and west on the Ogir Yensa map areas. You don't have a prayer yet of beating them, so you had better keep your "R2" button finger ready to flee if you spot one of them. The effects of being attacked by these so-called "Salamander Entities" at this point in the game are rather like having your whole party smacked with a gigantic fly-swatter...

They look like huge orange balls of flame, and move very slowly. If you keep tabs on where they are (you'll see them a mile away) you can easily avoid them.

IN THE CENTER of the NAM Yensa Sandsea is an area you can only get to if you back off to the OGIR Yensa Sandsea and take a tunnel through a part of the Zertinen Caverns. That tunnel is mainly populated with the same green slime creatures that you encountered in the Garamsythe Sewers, and they will try to cast sleep.
The tunnel entrance is specifically located in the map area titled: "Ogir-Yensa Sandsea/Central Junction"

The treasure at the end of that trip is totally NOT WORTH IT, and there are a variety of Urstrix (Giant Bird-like creatures) called "BAGOLY's" that will break your chain hunt (Like the slime creatures didn't already...). Still however, what adventurer worth their boots can resist filling out more areas of their maps?

At any rate ~
This pair of areas (the Ogir-Yensa and the Nam-Yensa) taken together are the best CHAIN LOOTING territory so far in the game.
One further note: At the upper connection to the Nam-Yensa Sansea from the Ogir-Yensa there is a mini quest to eliminate a tortoid monster called the "URUTAN EATER" that will gain you a bunch of berries to use on a GARUDA later on. I found them next to needless, but for the sake of completion, why not...

Armed with ALL OF THIS, I hope you net your party members every single one of the "QUICKENINGS" in the game. You will need them the instant you set foot inside the Tomb of Raithwall, it's the only way past the first trap/monster inside it.

I hope you keep this in mind too:
It doesn't matter WHAT quickenings you try to get for each party member - they are pre-determined. You can't get different ones for different party members, or change which ones are at which level no matter what you do. The best thing to do is send each party member after quickening tiles in different areas of the License Matrix at the same time, so that you don't waste time trying to get each party member to uncover the entire matrix.

A secret merchant is found in the Nechrohol of Nabudis.When you first enter the area from salikawood,go to the longest north dead end
and enter the room near the dead end.Examine the room to find a secret passage that doesn't appear on the map.You will find a pandora(red treasure chest).Examine the corners in the area until a mark appear.Press X and a bakanamy merchant will appear.
You can get:
Ether(after you talk to the merchant)
Maximillian,demon shield,telekenesis,mage power shisack(after giruvegan)
Scathe(after the pharos)

After defeating Bergan talk to one of those frog things at Mt Bur Omisace.One of them will give you the stone of the condemner.Use the stone when you approach the first way stone in the stillshrine of miriams.If you done this correctly you will be in the room where Zeromus is in no time

First get 10 esper's and complete the mindflayer hunt.Go to Jahara and talk to yugrea giomanser or something.He will open a way in henne mines.Go to henne mines and go to the area where you battled with tiamat.There will be an opened gate there.Go through the path and you will find a hidden path to zodiark.Be careful,there are strong enemies.And when you enter the fight,beware of the darkja.

Far into the game after beating doctor Cid go to Mt Bur Omisace to the third area and talk to the acolyte outside the temple that carry a staff and always walk around if you talk to the right person he will tell you "do you seek a greater power" and will give you the stone of the condemner.Now go to the Stilshrine of Miriam and use the way stone inside (there will be two reapers) you will be given the option to use the stone of condemner.use it and you will be warp to a screen called throne of veiled gods and open the door to battle Zeromus but you must have 99 hi and X-potions because you can't use magick and not only that but a LOTS of dark lords will join the battle.he like to use gravity magick so,to counter that you heal a lot let one of your characters attacking and the other two healing.attack the dark lords first then focus on Zeromus because the dark lords isn't very strong but their number is a lot when you already defeat 30-35 dark lords it will stop spawning.now just focus on Zeromus.After you defeat him you got the esper Zeromus,The Condemner

This is a quick and easy guide to complete the yiazmat mark within 2 hours (maybe less depending on level) now I would thouroughly advise level 99 but anything between 90-99 will do. first of all equip all your characters appart from vaan with bubble belt. give vaan genji gauntlet. this is because he is already the speediest and you want him to get lots of hits on yiazmat. go into battle with vann and one other party member level 80+ beserk vann and use the other party member for curing. NOTE: equip a powerful magical staff onto your curing character i.e staff of magi. after a few minutes of being beserked a few times vaan should be doing around 5000-6000 dmg on yiazmat and maybe 5+ hits per. if your lucky you can get 10 :p you should have the first 10 bars done in around 30-40 mins and yiazmat should be alot more powerful now. this is the time to bring out another strong person again 80+ use him for healing and attacking to guide vaan through the rest of the fight up until the last 10 bars. if all has gone to plan you should be on the last 10 bars within 1 hour and 30 mins. on the last 10 bars cast reverse on vaan and the other char and the healing character go into the tunnel. yiazmat should not attack you8 and you should be free to heal your characters. notice I havnt said to cast any protect sheel ect because this tbh wont help at all and will waist time and give yiazmat the advantage. just sayin :p now on the final bar beserk all of your characters and equip them with strong weps. yiazmat should not have time to k.o any of your party mebers because the last bar if gone to plan should take around 2 mins. last step is: THE DEATH OF YIAZMAT. if all has gone to plan you should hIM WITHIN 2 HOURS. WELL DONE AND GOOD LUCK !

In the Tomb Of The Great King (King Thornwall or whatever name ends with the word wall), there is a secret door in the tomb that gives you the Demonsbane sword, which adds +59 to attack. After you defeat the two Demon walls in the main corridor there will be three teleport pedestals. The middle one takes you back to the beginning of the tomb. The others need to be activated. Take the right path and explore the area until you reach a room with a jewel in the wall. Activate the jewel. An altar will rise and give you a brief description of what it is. Take the teleporter pedestal back to the others. Then, take the left path. Explore the area to find another jewel in a room. Activate it and an altar will lower, leading you to the room with Belias. However, do not go this way yet. Backtrack to the room with the activated jewel and teleporter pedestal. Take it back to the others, then take the first pedestal back to beginning. If you defeated the first Demon wall, behind where the demon wall was located is another jewel. Activate it, then take either of the new stairways to the secret area that does not show up on the map which are to the left and the right. When you go through the doors you can take either way to the bottom. However, be careful as there will be many high level elementals that fall from the ceiling. At the very bottom of the staircases, go towards the middle. There will be a chest which contains the Demonsbane.

During the first trip to Raithwall's tomb make sure to be at least level 17 and have Quickenings. Fight and defeat the first Demon Wall you encounter. The best way is to use a Quickening chain to start off. You can also set the game speed to fast because this optional Boss is not affected by it. Make sure you do at least 6,000 to 8,000 damage during your Quickening chains. If you run out of MP, either use an Ether or just change that character with another who also has Quickening(s). You will probably have to fight it out at the end of your chains. When you defeat this Boss, go back and save. Then, continue over the bridge where you defeated the first Demon Wall and proceed through to defeat another, who is pretty easy. Once this is done, go back to where the first Demon Wall was located and you will see a glowing stone. Touch it to reveal two staircases. Go down either of them and follow the path down. You do not have to fight the enemies encountered -- just run past them. You will reach a chest which has a 30 to 40% chance of being the Demonsbane. If the chest is different, quit the game, return to the title screen, and repeat. You can keep doing this until you get as many Demonsbane as desired. They can also be sold for 3,000 Gil each. Note: This requires some patience and time.
Feather Of The Flock

When in the Giza Plains during the Rain season, there are five withered trees on the banks of the water. Knock them all down and they will float down the river and cause a path to form in the south bank. Cross it and go all the way to the southeast corner to find an urn. Open it and you will get the Feather Of The Flock. It gives you a bond with Cockatrices.
Ragnarok

To get the Ragnarok with 109 attack power, you must pass the Pharos at Ridorana. After you pass the Pharos, go to the clan hall and talk to Montblance. He will give you a special hunt to kill Ixion. Once accepted, go back to the Pharos at Ridorana. You must be at least level 66. Purchase a Golden Axe for 18,000 Gil and some Echo Herbs and Eye Drops. Equip the Golden Axe to your strongest character. It will take a ranged damage of 1 to 9,999. Make sure you have three Bubble Belts to double your maximum HP. To find him, go to the lift just when you get in and take it up to Penumbra. It will require a few attempts to find and kill him. Once you do, go back to the petitioner and he will give you the Ragnorok.
Zodiac Spear

Open all treasure chests in the game except the following:

1. Treasure chest in Lowtown, outside of Old Dylan's place.

2. When sneaking into the palace (before getting the Goddess Tear), there are several chests in the Cellar. Do not open the two chests in the southeast corner.

3. All treasure chests in the Confiscatory (the place where you get your weapons and armor back after being captured).

4. In the Phon Coast, later in the game, there is an island with sixteen chests all near each other. The fourth chest among all sixteen must not be opened, so it is best not to open any of them. They only contain Gil.

Then, go to the Necrohol of Nabudis to find the most powerful weapon in the game, the Zodiac Spear. It has a +150 Attack with +8 Evasion.
Adrammelech Esper

This Esper is located at Athroza Quicksands in Zertinan Caverns. The place where you fight him has many other monsters that join him. Do not attempt to fight him until you can routinely kill a numerous amount of level 40 monsters at the same time. Keep in mind he is not summoning them. If you can keep from pushing the battle to areas you have not yet walked on you should be able to stop them from springing up from the ground. One monster spawns for about every one or two square feet in relation to your character.
Cuchulainn Esper

Cuchulainn is located in the Garamsythe Waterway's No. 1 Cloaca under Rabanastere. To get there, complete the "Waterway Haunting" and "Lost In The Pudding" hunts to open the way to get the Sluice Gate Key. Once you have the key, go to Waterway Control and follow these steps to get to the Esper:

1. Begin by closing the No. 3 and No. 10 controls in the Central Waterway Control.
2. Enter the No. 3 Cloaca Spur and use the No. 1 South Waterway Control at the end.
3. Return to the Central Waterway control and open No. 3 and No. 10.
4. Close No. 4 and No. 11, then enter the No. 4 Cloaca Spur and use the No. 1 North Waterway control.
5. Return to the Central Waterway Control again and open No. 11 and close No. 3.
6. Enter the No. 1 Cloaca and find the Boss at the low point on the south end. Save the game before the battle.

Exodus Esper

This Esper becomes available after you battle Cid in Draklor Laboratories. Go to the Babbleing Vale in the Moshphoran Highwastes. One of the villagers there by one of the shires will tell you that the shrines have started working, but he is not sure what they do. Activate the three eastern wind ones first (northeastern, eastern, and southeastern). You can only activate three at a time. Look at your map and you will see three new marks on it that indicate bridges have formed to areas you could not reach previously. Next move east to the Rays of Ashen Light section and find the Chocobo in the northern section. Feed him a Gyshal Green and ride him through the newly opened area to the end where you will see a path leading onward blocked by bushes that only a Chocobo can cross. This will take you to the Sky Reach Ridge section on the western side of the Vale. From here you can enter the Vale and activate a shrine that was out of reach before. Once you have gone north of the shrine to the big boulder, you will find a section that you can break to clear a path into the Vale. You must now activate one more shrine to get access to Exodus. It is the north or northwestern shrine check your map to be sure. It will open a place near the last shrine you activated on the northern part of Sky Reach Ridge. Next, go back to Sky Reach Ridge and fight him. Part way through the battle he will become immune to physical attacks. He is very good at keeping up his reflect barrier. Make sure to dispel it before hitting him with magic. He has some very powerful magical attacks, like flare.
Zalera Esper

First, complete the "Dalmasca's Desert Bloom" hunt. Go back to Dantro after the hunt and he will ask you if you can bring the "Cactus Flower" to his wife in the Estersand South bank village. Go there and find his wife. She will reward you for coming with a buddle of neetles. Exit and reenter and she will ask for some Semclan Shells. There are two sitting on the shore in the area they are glowing glints. Next, she will ask for Nebralim. Go back to Dantro and he will say they are near crates, but they are really on top of the tall boxes. Get two of them and go back. Next on the list is Valeblossom Dew. They are always near a white tree in the broken sands area. Get three and return. Then later in the game go back. Talk to her to learn that the patient has made a full recovery and is behind her house. He is actually a traveler hunter that will give you the item you need to get Zalera. It is called the "Barheim Key". Use it on the "Weather-beaten door" in the area that is left of the village going south. Make your way to Terminus 7 and just keep going through there. Soon you find there is no way to get to the next bridge. Just look for a mine cart that is on the right-hand side and press X. There will be what seems to be an endless army of the undead on your way. Save at Terminus 7 Adjunct before the fight. Defeat the Boss to get the Zalera Esper.
Esper timeline

The following are the times of when you can receive or find the Espers:

Get the Barheim Key, then go to the Dalmasca Eastersand Gate Crystal section and talk to Ruxera, who is looking at the river wanting to fish. Next, go to the south-east section of Port of Balfonheim, which is the road to Airship Terminal. Find the old fishing man around the crates area and talk to him twice, then choose the first option. Move away from the old man, but do not leave this area yet. After a bit, go back to the same place and the old man will be gone. Examine the fishing rod there to get Muramata. Go back to Dalmasca Eastersand and give the Muramata to Ruxera to start the fishing mini-game.
Bonus fishing spots

Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding fishing spot in the fishing mini-game:

Master Den: Fish up Saboten Crest in the Secret Reaches.
Middle Reaches: Get five "Perfect Fishing" in the Lower Reaches.
Secret Reaches: Fish up Saboten Bond in the Upper Reaches with Matamune.
Taikou Chest (treasure): Get nine "Perfect Fishing" in the Master Den.
Upper Reaches: Get five "Perfect Fishing" in the Middle Reaches.

Sky Pirate's Den Figurines

Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding figurine:

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